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I am trying to start a campaign for under appreciated animes using sigs and I was wondering, is it ok to make a thread in general anime section to inform other members?

You already have a thread located in the Fan Creations forum and that would seem the best location for it since you are looking for people who create sigs. Or are you saying that you don't want to reach out to just the artists, that you want to bring under appreciated anime to the masses.

I would suggest you PM one of the Mods who deals with the Fan Creations forum (since you are going to need the help of artists) and explain to them just what it is you want to achieve.

I leave mine simply on the rack with the dishes and I was wondering (while dipping the spoon in my Trix Yougrt) how sanitary it was.

I used to leave it on the drying rack and then place it into a drawer with the usual forks/knives/spoons slotted holder once they're dried (I have no idea what these things are called normally). These days, I've taken after my girlfriend and leave them out in the drying rack, as they're frequently in use before they're even finished drying.

I never thought about it, but my girlfriend has a preference with regard to the orientation of the silverware on the drying rack. This assumes that your drying rack has a compartment of sorts where your silverware will be standing vertically. I'd always had it such that the handles of the silverware were pointed up. My reasoning was that people were less likely to stab themselves while reaching for silverware from the drying rack. On a second thought, it's also more sanitary in that people are less likely to rub their potentially dirty hands against the heads of other silverware.

However, my girlfriend was horrified at the orientation of my silverware. Her reasoning? She pointed at the bottom of the drying container and drew my attention to the fact that a thin mold-like coating had developed along the bottom of our rack. Given that it receives moisture regularly it certainly could be mold. Even though we wash the bottoms of the drying rack every so often (but apparently not often enough), dust and potentially mold gathers at the bottom. My girlfriend's a bit of a germophobe, so having that grimey surface touch something that touches your food was a no-no.

This is a very unscientific study, but comparing my health now (following her method of the dishes) to how I used to do it, I haven't noticed a difference I'll probably continue to follow her way unless I find myself living with someone who rarely washes his or her hands and is a bit clumsy when getting silverware out.

In my house we leave forks pointing upward and knifes pointing downward. I've never really thought about the reasoning but it has always stuck with me.

That's perfectly sensible. I mean, it could be quite dangerous to have them oriented in the same position. What if they mated? The sharpness of a knife combined with the aggression of a fork could be life-threatening.

That's perfectly sensible. I mean, it could be quite dangerous to have them oriented in the same position. What if they mated? The sharpness of a knife combined with the aggression of a fork could be life-threatening.

I would assume these are like butter knives and not those other ones correct?

Now that I think about it, I believe I've worked out why we leave them like that. You see, you have to have a way of differentiating forks from knifes, so you can't leave them all pointing downwards, but leaving knifes pointing upwards is more dangerous since you can accidentally cut yourself. So, it makes sense to leave forks pointing upwards (since we have the thingie with the silverware at an elevated position, stabbing yourself via a downwards movement is not very feasible) and knives pointing downwards in order to know which is which.

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You already have a thread located in the Fan Creations forum and that would seem the best location for it since you are looking for people who create sigs. Or are you saying that you don't want to reach out to just the artists, that you want to bring under appreciated anime to the masses.

I would suggest you PM one of the Mods who deals with the Fan Creations forum (since you are going to need the help of artists) and explain to them just what it is you want to achieve.

That's perfectly sensible. I mean, it could be quite dangerous to have them oriented in the same position. What if they mated? The sharpness of a knife combined with the aggression of a fork could be life-threatening.

I wouldn't be surprised if it has happened. There has already been an interesting study on cutlery interbreeding here.

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From the Reputation FAQ, one block is 100 points. When you get to seven or eight blocks it takes a lot more points to gain another block. NSW did an experiment on this a while back, I forgot what the numbers were... but by that point, you probably won't care

._. why can i only see my last 500 posts ....is there anyway i could see more of my posts
And how points is one rep

Using the search option you wont see more than 500 post, in the case of using the option of showing the member post, it only brings you the last 500 post of this poster (I guess this has to do with not overloading the search engine).

What you can do is use the advanced search option, and change the criteria, for example: I wanted to see your post from 6 months ago and older, so I just indicated your name in the User Name Text box, and then changed the sort that said “find post from” to 6 month before and older , and I found your last 500 posts from 6 months ago.

But, because the search is only going to bring 500 post regardless, well, you would need to do what I do, I just go to a thread were there is an indication I posted (the ones with the Black dot on the middle) I click on the number of post made on that thread, when you find your name, you just click on the number of post made and you are going to find a summary of all the post you have made for that thread.

I think that’s the closest you can get of finding post without using a key word in the search option.

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What you can do is use the advanced search option, and change the criteria, for example: I wanted to see your post from 6 months ago and older, so I just indicated your name in the User Name Text box, and then changed the sort that said “find post from” to 6 month before and older , and I found your last 500 post from 6 months ago.

You reminded me that there is actually a way to view your "first" posts. In the advanced search area use the "Search by user name" (upper right) and enter your alias. Under the search options (lower left) change "Sort results by" so that it's "Last Posting Date" and "in Ascending order" (note that "last posting date" is the default, but the sort order is "in Descending order"). This will show you up through your first 500 posts, I presume.

That's perfectly sensible. I mean, it could be quite dangerous to have them oriented in the same position. What if they mated? The sharpness of a knife combined with the aggression of a fork could be life-threatening.